The Ukrainians murdered Albin Dobosz, 31.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „The 75th anniversary of the genocide – August and the summer of 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

The Ukrainians shot the former head of the primary school, Lieutenant Stanisław Weiss, who was married to a Ukrainian woman.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „75th anniversary of the genocide – October 1943”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

The UPA and Ukrainian SS men from the SS „Galizien–Hałyczyna” murdered 97 Poles and 15 Jews whom the Poles were hiding. „In the morning of February 3, I decided to go to Hanaczów. In the meadow through which we had to cross, there were bodies, mostly of older men. There were also women and small children. As I was walking through the yard of the surviving house in the center of the village, the owner of the hut called me inside. There were four wounded in the room. A woman with cut hands, two young girls stabbed on top of each other, and a little boy with a cut belly, blue head and” blown eye.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide, February 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: Bakota Zofia, recollections; in: Komański Henryk, Siekierka Szczepan, „The genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists on Poles in the Tarnopol Province 1939-1946”, in: Wroclaw 2004, p. 778

It was the evening of February 2, 9 pm was approaching. Suddenly, the silence was interrupted by a rocket shot. The Hanaczów signal was attacked simultaneously from several sides. One of the attacking groups struck from the north from the cemetery, the other from the east and the most numerous from the south–west. The number of Banderites was estimated at 1,000 people. The armed Polish posts began a defensive fight. From the side of the cemetery, Józef Świrk and Albin Nieckarz were at the post, both of them died fighting until the last moment. From the side of Siedliska, non–commissioned officer Józef Burek, called „Hajzak” and Mikołaj Lipnicki, died in the outposts. From the south, Józef Wojtowicz „Mazur” and Jan Nieckarz „Florek” died on guard. Mikołaj Nieckarz „Maksym” showed particular courage, who also died. Wachm. „Głóg” with his dispatch unit rushed to fight in the southern section, and sent self–defense platoons to other sections. The attackers bypassed the hamlets of Podkamienna and Zagora, located to the north of the village, as well as Hanaczówka, located in the south. They wanted to reach the center of the village and destroy it. They managed to seize houses on the outskirts of the village itself; the Bandera followers rushed into them, murdering women, old men and children, who were in a visible place killed by a bullet, knife or ax. In the barricaded presbytery, the defense was organized by monastic brother Damian (Franciszek Bratkowski) together with Seweryn Dietrych, a medical student, father Szczepan absolved the dying. There were bloodcurdling scenes in this attack. Six Banderites fell into the house of a poor shoemaker, Michał Burek, called „Nagabów”, standing on the edge of the village, They murdered the mother and father with bayonets, then dragged five children from 1 to 7 years old from their beds, stabbed them with bayonets and placed them next to each other. The Jewish unit „Bunia” took part in the fight. Despite their advantage, the attackers did not manage to take over the village. After midnight, they started to retreat. About 85 people were killed and the number of injured was estimated at 100. The next day, the village looked like one great fire and the cemetery was desperate among the population. First, the Ukrainian police came to the village from the nearest police station in Pohorylce, whose commander himself took part in the attack. A few hours later, the Germans arrived and demanded 12 cows, which they had taken by force. The funeral needed to be dealt with. A common grave was dug on the hill next to the cemetery. After the mass, a bottle with a list of the dead and murdered was placed between the coffins.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide, February 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: web page: piotrp50.blog.onet.pl [accessible: 2006.04.10]

According to the UPA report, the attack was carried out by the „Siromanci” unit, which suffered no losses of its own, killing over 180 Poles and injuring around 200.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide, February 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

[The Ukrainians] shot Jan Brzoza, 25.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide, February 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

The Ukrainians murdered 2 Poles who survived the February slaughter.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – March 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

Easter Monday – the UPA killed 66 Poles, 26 of them in Hanaczów and the rest in hamlets. They used bayonets to stab a mother with 5 children from 1 to 7 years of age and seriously injured my father.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: Motyka Grzegorz, „Ukrainian guerrilla 1942-1960”, in: Warsaw 2006, p. 387

In the evening of April 10, 1944, part of the partisan unit went to the place of dropping from Lieutenant Strzae. What else weakened the defense of Hanaczów. The seizure started just that night. One of the Poles from Stanimirz reported that on Sunday morning the UPA commander – Georgian, a major deserter from the Red Army – conducted a briefing at the church in Stanimirz after the service. He announced that only ruins would remain from Hanaczów and that not a single living soul could leave. At around 10.30 p.m., Home Army patrols sent to the Hanaczów foreground reported that the village was surrounded by a strong group of UPA and Ukrainian police. Some of the Ukrainians were in German uniforms. An alarm was ordered. Individual self–defense units took designated positions. Wachm took direct command. Wojtowicz „Głóg”. Soviet partisans and 13 Jews also took part in the defense. The attack began between 11.00 and 24.00. According to reports at that time, UPA troops of about 1,500 people took part in it. At first, the attackers set fire to those buildings in the eastern part of the village, outside the defense triangle, which had survived the first attack. A sea of flames engulfed the defensive redoubt, and the UPA machine guns responded from several sides. The attack was carried out from six starting points, but the main attack came from the eastern side through the valley and orchards, sheltered by individual houses. Between these houses and the center of the village there was a wide meadow with a deep ditch. Here the Georgian led the attack himself. When the main forces of the attackers reached the meadow, the defense opened fire with the LMGs. The attackers began to hesitate, but, excited to continue the attack, ran on. In the middle of the meadow they got fire from the side. It's a wachm. „Głóg” broke through with a group of soldiers between the burning buildings and hit the Banderites from the side and back. The attackers began to withdraw in panic, about 15 Banderites were killed here, including the Georgian commander. The lack of a commander caused confusion. In other sections, UPA attacks were more easily fought off. Many mothers with children took refuge in the church. Father Wiktor (Franciszek Błaż) maintained law and order here. He recommended. that everyone would go to the vault of the church and lay down there behind the cover of the roof foundation. But here too, panic arose when the bullets hit the sheet metal roof. Everyone had to be brought down again. Father Wiktor encouraged and gave Holy Communion. In the morning, after unsuccessfully waiting for the drop, Lieutenant Strzała returned. They came to the village and wanted to come to the aid of the defenders, they first had to repel an attack by the UPA group themselves. It was approaching 5 in the morning, smoke from the burning buildings shielded the defensive redoubt, reducing visibility. Command of the defense after a wounded watchman. „Głogu” was taken over by the platoon leader Józef Chruściel „Ryś”. The attackers launched another attack – from the west, also repulsed. At around 6 a.m. some commotion was noticed among the attackers, taking the wounded and withdrawing. On Mount Dąbrowa, between Hanaczów and Siedliska, the UPA heavy machine guns covered the retreat. The retreating people destroyed and took the property left over from the fire. Once again, around 7.30 AM, the UPA units tried to get to the village, they were attacked by Lieutenant Strzała with an assigned platoon from the command reserve and a Jewish group. There was confusion in the enemy ranks, and then an escape. Corporal Tadeusz Lipski „Puchacz” was chasing the escapees with the machine gun. One of the Jewish partisans, Siunio Lichtenberg from Przemyślany, fell right next to him. At 9 a.m. the fighting ceased completely. The Banderites withdrew to the Romanów. The bodies of the dead were dragged – tied by the arms and legs – with the Slaughtered horses, which they could not take, their heads were cut off to avoid recognition. The killed Banderites were estimated at 120 people, how many were injured, it has not been established. In Hanaczów itself, the losses were relatively small: 26 people, including five defenders of Hanaczów – Michał Bednarz „Piotruś”, three unknown volunteers from Lviv from the unit of Lieutenant Strzała and the aforementioned Jewish partisan. Moreover, those who recklessly did not leave their homes died. The death of the family of Michał Nieckarz, also known as the Nagabs, was particularly tragic. Six attackers fell there. They murdered his wife with bayonets and seriously injured him. They then dragged five children from one to seven years of age out of their beds, stabbed them with bayonets and placed the dead one next to the other. The remaining victims were the inhabitants of Hanaczówka and the hamlets of Zagóra and Podkamienna, which the first attack missed and their inhabitants ignored the next one. The Hanaczów center defended itself and saved the people who took refuge there, but it was impossible to live in burnt hamlets and looted houses. You had to leave the village. Immediately after the funeral of the murdered, a column of carts with their modest possessions left the village along the road to Kurowice. As soon as they got to the Zawora ridge, about a kilometer from the village, they were fired from the forest on the Kamienna Mountain. Having no weapons, they turned back. Three days later an attempt was made to get out, this time towards the Przemyśl road. As the column approached the so–called Franciscan forest, it was shot at; 9 to 12 people on carts died, incl. mayor Marcin Dyl and three members of his family. At the sound of the gunshots, a rescue came from the village and brought the attacked back to the village  […] Piotr Niedzielski recalls: I was in Hanaczów with my father, my brother, my horses. We went for the local people after the Ukrainians' attack. It was a long way. I saw murdered people there, burned cattle, dogs, burned houses. The whole church was standing and the school was made of brick. The village was eighty percent destroyed. I saw a pregnant woman with a ripped belly, one girl had her breasts cut off. 9 to 12 people on carts died, incl. mayor Marcin Dyl and three members of his family. At the sound of the gunshots, a rescue came from the village and brought the attacked back to the village  […] Piotr Niedzielski recalls: I was in Hanaczów with my father, my brother, horses. We went for the local people after the Ukrainians' attack. It was a long way. I saw murdered people there, burned cattle, dogs, burned houses. The whole church was standing and the school was made of brick. The village was eighty percent destroyed. I saw a pregnant woman with a ripped belly, one girl had her breasts cut off. 9 to 12 people on carts died, incl. mayor Marcin Dyl and three members of his family. At the sound of the shots, a rescue came from the village and brought the attacked back to the village  […] Piotr Niedzielski recalls: I was in Hanaczów with my father, my brother, my horses. We went for local people after the Ukrainians' attack. It was a long way. I saw murdered people there, burned cattle, dogs, burned houses. The whole church was standing and the school was made of brick. The village was eighty percent destroyed. I saw a pregnant woman with a ripped belly, one girl had her breasts cut off. It was a long way. I saw murdered people there, burned cattle, dogs, burned houses. The whole church was standing and the school was made of brick. The village was eighty percent destroyed. I saw a pregnant woman with a ripped belly, one woman had her breasts cut off. It was a long way. I saw murdered people there, burned cattle, dogs, burned houses. The whole church was standing and the school was made of brick. The village was eighty percent destroyed. I saw a pregnant woman with a ripped belly, one girl had her breasts cut off.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: „Haraczów ceased to exist” — web page: piotrp50.blog.onet.pl [accessible: 2006.04.10]

Myrosław Onyszkewycz „Orest Karat” gave the order: „I order you to purge your area immediately from the Polish element and Ukrainian–Bolshevik agents. The purge should be carried out in riverside hostels sparsely populated by Poles. To this end, create a militia near the area, composed of our members, whose task would be to eliminate the above–mentioned. Our larger hostels will be cleared of this element by our military units even in broad daylight  […] The clearing of the area must be completed before our Easter so that we can celebrate it without Poles. Remember that when the Bolsheviks find us with Poles in our territory, they will slaughter us all  […] Make a hard, ruthless fight with them. Not to spare anyone, even in mixed marriages. To take Lachs out of their houses, but The Ukrainians and children in these houses should not be liquidated  […] Get the gun. Death to the Poles. Stop, April 6, 1944. Glory to the heroes! Orest, Karat” This order is in the files of the investigation against Myroslav Onyshhevych.

source: Miszko Przemysław, Matkowski Krzysztof, „Crimes of genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists in Eastern Lesser Poland in 1939—1945 against persons of Polish nationality - in the light of investigations by OKŚZPNP in Wrocław”; in: „Crimes of the past, studies and materials of IPN prosecutors”, in: Warszawa 2008, vol. 2 — web page: ipn.gov.pl [accessible: 2021.02.04]

The UPA shelled the evacuation column, killing about 10 Poles.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: Motyka Grzegorz, „Ukrainian guerrilla 1942-1960”, in: Warsaw 2006, p. 388

On April 13, 1944, a dozen or so families from Hanaczów, living mostly from the side of Hanaczówka and Siedliska, decided to leave, taking the most necessary things, food, bedding and clothes with them on carts. Around 10 o'clock, while passing by the church, they were stopped by soldiers of the Forest Division. Capt. „Julian”, priest „Wiktor”, lieutenant „Arrows” explained to them that leaving on that day was very dangerous, because UPA bands might still be prowling in the nearby forests. An effective cover for such a large column of carts will be difficult to organize, because you should always expect another attack on the countryside. At that time, „Jurand” arrived with cover from Krosienko–Zaciemne station and informed the participants that that in the next few days a safe evacuation of the inhabitants of Hanaczów to Biłka Szlachecka and Królewska and to Czyszki will be organized. During these negotiations, an informant from the church tower reported that groups of Banderites had appeared from the side of Hanaczówka and Dąbrowa. After a few minutes, the village began to be shelled. In this situation, it was impossible to provide cover, because at any moment there was a threat of a new Bandera attack. Those leaving, including Marcin Dyl and Józef Łamasz, despite the persuasion of the priest „Wiktor” and the objection of lieutenant „Arrows” under the cover of several soldiers went towards the station. The Banderites shot at them when the carts were about 2 km from Hanaczów. Despite sending an immediate relief, 10 people from the convoy died.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: „Defense of Hanaczów ”; in: portal: The 4th Partition of Poland – September 17, 1939 — web page: www.ivrozbiorpolski.pl [accessible: 2021.03.31]

Myrosław Onyszkewycz „Orest Karat” gave the order: „I order you to purge your area immediately from the Polish element and Ukrainian–Bolshevik agents. The purge should be carried out in riverside hostels sparsely populated by Poles. To this end, create a militia near the area, composed of our members, whose task would be to eliminate the above–mentioned. Our larger hostels will be cleared of this element by our military units even in broad daylight  […] The clearing of the area must be completed before our Easter so that we can celebrate it without Poles. Remember that when the Bolsheviks find us with Poles in our territory, they will slaughter us all  […] Make a hard, ruthless fight with them. Not to spare anyone, even in mixed marriages. To take Lachs out of their houses, but The Ukrainians and children in these houses should not be liquidated  […] Get the gun. Death to the Poles. Stop, April 6, 1944. Glory to the heroes! Orest, Karat” This order is in the files of the investigation against Myroslav Onyshhevych.

source: Miszko Przemysław, Matkowski Krzysztof, „Crimes of genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists in Eastern Lesser Poland in 1939—1945 against persons of Polish nationality - in the light of investigations by OKŚZPNP in Wrocław”; in: „Crimes of the past, studies and materials of IPN prosecutors”, in: Warszawa 2008, vol. 2 — web page: ipn.gov.pl [accessible: 2021.02.04]

The Ukrainians murdered 2 Poles (the number of victims in this village reached 168: 153 Poles and 15 Jews).

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – April 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

Myrosław Onyszkewycz „Orest Karat” gave the order: „I order you to purge your area immediately from the Polish element and Ukrainian–Bolshevik agents. The purge should be carried out in riverside hostels sparsely populated by Poles. To this end, create a militia near the area, composed of our members, whose task would be to eliminate the above–mentioned. Our larger hostels will be cleared of this element by our military units even in broad daylight  […] The clearing of the area must be completed before our Easter so that we can celebrate it without Poles. Remember that when the Bolsheviks find us with Poles in our territory, they will slaughter us all  […] Make a hard, ruthless fight with them. Not to spare anyone, even in mixed marriages. To take Lachs out of their houses, but The Ukrainians and children in these houses should not be liquidated  […] Get the gun. Death to the Poles. Stop, April 6, 1944. Glory to the heroes! Orest, Karat” This order is in the files of the investigation against Myroslav Onyshhevych.

source: Miszko Przemysław, Matkowski Krzysztof, „Crimes of genocide committed by Ukrainian nationalists in Eastern Lesser Poland in 1939—1945 against persons of Polish nationality - in the light of investigations by OKŚZPNP in Wrocław”; in: „Crimes of the past, studies and materials of IPN prosecutors”, in: Warszawa 2008, vol. 2 — web page: ipn.gov.pl [accessible: 2021.02.04]

On May 10, 1944, Wojtowicz Rozalia was murdered.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – May 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: prof. dr hab. Jankiewicz Leszek S., „Supplement to the list of losses of the Polish population provided by Stanisław Jastrzębski for the Lubelskie Voivodeship (2004)”; in: Listowski Witold (ed.), „OUN-UPA genocide in the South-Eastern Borderlands”, in: Kędzierzyn-Koźle 2016, vol. 8

Kwaśniewski Jan, 35, was murdered.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – October 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

source: Wyspiański Józef, „The barbarism of the OUN-UPA”, in: Lubin 2009, p. 219

The Ukrainians murdered 8 Poles who returned to their farms, including 5 women; victims were torn veins from their hands, thrust wires into the ears, throat and nose, tearing out their tongues, etc.

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – October 1944”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]

The Ukrainians murdered 30 Poles (in total in 1944 they murdered 253 Poles in this village).

source: Żurek Stanisław, „Calendar of the genocide – December 1944 and "in 1944"”; in: portal: Volhynia — web page: wolyn.org [accessible: 2021.02.04]